Shelf Awareness Readers: Newsletter Archive

Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, July 11, 2025

From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Crown
  • ★  Bug Hollow
  • Vera, or Faith
  • These Heathens
  • Fulfillment
  • The Scrapbook
  • Fox
  • Hazel Says No
  • Fools for Love: Stories
  • The Poppy Fields

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Etiquette for Lovers and Killers

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • The Secret Market of the Dead

• Romance

  • Sounds Like Love

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground
  • Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

• History

  • The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
  • Alice's Oxford: People and Places That Inspired Wonderland

• Psychology & Self-Help

  • The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life

• Science

  • ★  The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science

• Poetry

  • All the Lands We Inherit

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Graciela in the Abyss
  • ★  I Come from Another Galaxy
  • ★  Call Your Boyfriend
  • Blood in the Water
  • Vampire Jam Sandwich

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Olive Senior

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Jane Stanton Hitchcock